Growing Up in a Violent World: Readings
The following are some titles of professional essays dealing with growing
up or with violence:
Family
The Anger of a Child, Adrienne Rich (Cavitch, 107)
Home is Where to Learn How to Hate, Leo Rosten (Cavitch, 112)
It's Just Too Late, Calvin Trillin (Cavitch, 131)
Education
The Farce Called "Grading", Arthur E. Lean (Readings, 365)
College Pressures, William Zinsser (Kirszner, 373)
Finishing School, Maya Angelou (Kirszner, 57)
Women
The Ambivalence of Abortion, Linda Bird Francke (Cavitch, 542)
Discrimination
I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. (Readings, 371)
Thriving as an Outsider, Even an Outcast, in Smalltown America,
Louie Crew (Cavitch, 38)
Animals
Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell (Kirszner, 85)
Animal Rights versus Human Health, Albert Rosenfeld (Kirszner,
510)
Media & Technology
Why I am not Going to Buy a Computer, Wendell Berry (Readings,
384)
Television: The Plug-In Drug, Marie Winn (Kirszner, 271)
75 Readings: An Anthology. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1993.
CL 808.0427 S497 1993
Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell. Patterns for College
Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 4th ed. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1989.
CL 808.042 7 K61P
Cavitch, David. Life Studies: A Thematic Reader.
3rd ed. New York: A Bedford Book, St. Martin's Press, 1989.
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